Date: Sat, 24 Feb 1996 11:42:49 -0800 (PST) From: "JULIAN Elischer" <julian@ref.tfs.com> To: terry@lambert.org (Terry Lambert) Cc: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de, jerry@border.com, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, netbsd-help@NetBSD.ORG, bsdi-users@BSDI.COM Subject: Re: Multisession CD-R Message-ID: <199602241942.LAA09471@ref.tfs.com> In-Reply-To: <199602241902.MAA27791@phaeton.artisoft.com> from "Terry Lambert" at Feb 24, 96 12:02:57 pm
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> > > To the best of my knowledge, FreeBSD doesn't support reading > > multivolume CDs yet. I've recently made one, but failed to read the > > second session on either FreeBSD or MS Winglows (95, FWIW). > > > > There's an urgent demand for it however, and i'm personally interested > > in getting this work. When I wrote the cdrom driver I thought about reading the first few entries in the TOC and trying to map them into the pretend disklabel that I fabricate.. it wouldn't be hard, except that there are only 8 entries in the disklabel. > > One of the Japanese engineers on the list posted about getting this > to work about a year ago. > > If I remember correctly, he also read audio format CD's as data, so > you could eliminate the DAAD conversion. > > The full multisession spec, including their Unicode extensions, is > available on the Microsoft Windows95 DDK CD. From what I remember, > multiple sessions are *required* for Unicode encoding. Better of course to NOT use a uSoft version because they keep extending hte specs this way or that without always making it obvious that it's an extension.
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